Saatchi ‘used trial to wage proxy war on Nigella’

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Charles Saatchi: "was looking for a place to put his anger"Sylvia Linares/Getty

Oliver Moody

Published at 12:01AM, December 19 2013

Charles Saatchi was accused in a court yesterday of using a trial as a “proxy”
to wage war on his ex-wife Nigella Lawson.

The jury were also told put aside any sympathy they might have for Ms Lawson
after a series of deeply personal allegations about her private life and
drug use, and to treat claims that the food writer had taken cocaine as
though she were living on a council estate.

A barrister acting for Elisabetta Grillo, 41, who alongside her sister
Francesca is accused of defrauding Mr Saatchi of nearly £700,000 for a
four-year “glossy magazine” shopping spree,